California and LA County to Remove 1.5 Million Inactive Voters from Voter Rolls

(CNSNews.com) -- The government watchdog group Judicial Watch announced today that it had reached a settlement with the State of California and Los Angeles County that requires them to remove 1.5 million inactive voters from their voter registration rolls, as required under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

“This settlement vindicates Judicial Watch’s groundbreaking lawsuits to clean up state voter rolls to help ensure cleaner elections,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a Jan. 3 press release.

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“Judicial Watch and its clients are thrilled with this historic settlement that will clean up election rolls in Los Angeles County and California – and set a nationwide precedent to ensure that states take reasonable steps to ensure that dead and other ineligible voters are removed from the rolls," he said.

Judicial Watch filed its voter-rolls lawsuit in December 2017. In the case, the group was aided by the Election Integrity Project California, Inc. and the law firm Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk.

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In the lawsuit, Judicial Watch alleged the following:

"Los Angeles County has more voter registrations on its voter rolls than it has citizens who are old enough to register. Specifically, according to data provided to and published by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Los Angeles County has a registration rate of 112 percent of its adult citizen population.